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have you seen the TV series based off the sword of truth? It's not that great for me, to be honest.....
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have you seen the TV series based off the sword of truth? It's not that great for me, to be honest.....
will
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Politically Correct: The Ultimate Storybook
Nothing in This Book is True, But it's Exactly the Way Things Are
The Greatest Story Ever Sold
The Mabinogian
The Golden Bough
Mormonism, Momma, and Me
The Other Bible
The Book of the Dead
Steppenwolf
The Fate of Early Childhood Memories
A Razor for a Goat
(ad nauseum -- LOL! I am a voracious reader)
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Nothing in This Book is True, But it's Exactly the Way Things Are
The Greatest Story Ever Sold
The Mabinogian
The Golden Bough
Mormonism, Momma, and Me
The Other Bible
The Book of the Dead
Steppenwolf
The Fate of Early Childhood Memories
A Razor for a Goat
(ad nauseum -- LOL! I am a voracious reader)
Peace,
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Books are always better than screening in the same way original is always better than translation. Nobody can tell the story better than original author.
For example, have you watched Desperation? It's a fantastic novel by Stephen King, but a terrible movie.
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The human brain is capable of much more than any special effects department
Peace,
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The human brain is capable of much more than any special effects department
Peace,
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I don't know- avatar in 3D is probably better than anything I would have thought up
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This goes without saying. You can never get all of a book into a movie. The movie would have to be as long as the book, and know one would sit through the whole thing. In parts or not. You're also dealing with the money factor. Companies are not willing to spend the 100's of millions it would take to make the full book into a movie.
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I like all of the halo series books, I like the books better than the game, I think the game is a mediocre reproduction of the art contained in the books' pages.
-they're by Eric Nylund.
-they're by Eric Nylund.
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I don't know- avatar in 3D is probably better than anything I would have thought up
will
You may not have been able to "come up with" the story and characters. However, if you had read the story before, the characters would have been much better in your head than in any on screen 3D rendering.
Peace,
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Bible (read through twice cover to cover)
Foundation
Lord of Rings
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Flatland
Origami Design Secrets - Mathematical Methods for an Ancient Art)
A brief history of time
Chaos, Fractals and Dynamics - Computer Experiments in Mathematics)
Foundation
Lord of Rings
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Flatland
Origami Design Secrets - Mathematical Methods for an Ancient Art)
A brief history of time
Chaos, Fractals and Dynamics - Computer Experiments in Mathematics)
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For me the bible is meh. I prefer religious texts like the tao te ching or the Confucian scripts. Never read foundation. However, I really like LOTR, HGttG, I heard flatland is good. A brief history of time is good.
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J.R.R. Tolkien - The Silmarillion ( not read yet but heard its awesome and i got it as a present for christmas, i wanted it )
J.R.R. Tolkien - Hobbit ( currently reading it )
J.R.R. Tolkien - Hobbit ( currently reading it )
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+1 for the Old man and the sea -- so soothing and deep, read it on the sea shore during my vacation in Spain last year.
Other than that:
The Master and Margarita
The Alchemist
Also looking forward to read The Idiot when I have time (I mostly read technical literature or articles online, probably like majority here
But these are all serious. Speaking of fun books, in my early teens I read Jurassic Park in two days. Dinosaurs were my craze at the time like lasers are now
Right on!
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Read it long time ago, but that was the one Tolkien I couldn't really get into.
Most people aren't even really familiar with it, usually it's just the LoTR and Hobbit. Have fun reading it though. It's quite a bit different from the others.
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I see no mention of Ray Bradbury?
Fahrenheit 451
The Martian Chronicles
I have enjoyed many of his novels and short stories.
Fahrenheit 451
The Martian Chronicles
I have enjoyed many of his novels and short stories.
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You think it was too complicated with a lot of strange names to remember? I haven't read any books so I don't know the difference it might have with the other LOTR books... I was so excited just by looking at the front cover of The Silmarillion and considering I am quite a big fan of LOTR, I decided I should learn more things about it.
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